Jennie+Chubb

On January 4, 1921, 21-year-old Jennie Chubb died in her Chicago home from complications of an abortion performed that day.

The coroner identified Veronica Rypcznski as the person responsible for Jennie's death.

Veronica's profession is not mentioned in the source.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

 For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

 Source: [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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